This Is the End My Only Friend: Living and Dying With Jim Morrison [Paperback]

Judy Huddleston (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Spi Books Trade (October 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561711071
• ISBN-13: 978-1561711079
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,777,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Judy Huddleston received her BFA from California Institute of the Arts and MFA from Eastern Washington University. Her first book, This is the End My Only Friend, was published in 1991. She has recently completed her second memoir, Like He Was God, and a collection of prose-poetry. Her work has been published in the Los Angeles Review, Wilderness Press, Mudlark, the Collagist, and Penwood Review. She currently teaches Writing at California State University at Monterey Bay.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars not what i had been looking for, but much better, December 11, 2000

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meira (san francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is the End...My Only Friend: Living and Dying With Jim Morrison (Hardcover)

I was looking for a book about Jim Morrison but what i got, in this book, far exceeded my expectations, and, in fact was much better than i had hoped. It is an account of a girl's first love and how it changed her, and how her obsession affected her life. it is a book about her rite of passage, which included not only her relationship with jim morrison, but also her use of drugs, her thoughts and concerns, her obsessions and uncertainties. In our modern world, which is so obsessed with image and celebrities, she might not have gotten the book published if she had had a relationship with an ordinary person. She had a relationship with a famous and charismatic rock star, but he really is not the center of the book - she is. And because of that, the book is more interesting. She speaks in a way that i can relate to and identify with. She described different states of mind very clearly and believably. And this book is undoubtedly a true story. Apparently, Miss Huddleston was the consultant for Oliver Stone's movie about Jim Morrison. The part of the book, near the end, about her breakdown and hospitalization,years after jim morrison's death, was not overly dramatic, but appropriately so, and fascinating and realistic. Because of the skill of her writing, she brings you into the mindset. I highly recommend this book to anyone, whether a "child of that time" or someone younger wanting to read something about jim morrison and his impact on one young woman.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't Put it down....., May 18, 2002

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Lisa J. Johnson (Worcester, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is the End...My Only Friend: Living and Dying With Jim Morrison (Hardcover)

I love reading Jim Morrison books but in my personal opinion, I haven't come across any written by his 'old girlfriends' that seem true or realistic; until this one. Judy writes an open an honest account on her times with Morrison and how she was a star-strucked young girl and had the dream of being his 'one and only'. She makes it clear through the entire book that he was very charming and smart, etc. but he was a human being who had his faults. She also made it clear on how she realizes she shouldn't have tolerated the way he treated her and how she could obviously never get him to love her (although she wished she could). In my eyes, I can definitely relate to a young teenage girl being 'starstruck' and wanting so badly to turn a once-in-a-while fling (which Jim viewed it as) to a lifelong romance. Truthful, honest, and open; this book is probably the ONLY believable book written by a former lover of Jim's.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Honest and Daring, October 28, 2002

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Linda S. (Tustin, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is the End...My Only Friend: Living and Dying With Jim Morrison (Hardcover)

This wonderful book, about a relationhsip with one of the most mysterious and charismatic rock stars, is blatant in its honesty. Often, through her perfectly timed and wickedly dry sense of humor, Ms. Huddleston simultantouesly shows us her naivete in direct conflict with her alter ego which knows better than to think for a moment that Jim Morrison will actually rise to her girlhood-like expectations. Revealing in every way, funny and touching, I read this one straight through!!